Pontevedra police dig into resident’s death

A bloodied Agaton Cantos sits on their wooden living room set. He had been shot dead. Police were still trying to identify a suspect and determine the motive.

ROXAS City – Why would anyone kill a 57-year-old resident of Pontevedra, Capiz?

That’s what the police were still trying to find out.

Agaton Cantos was shot to death in his house in Barangay Sublangon, Pontevedra.

He was watching television at around 6 p.m. Monday, investigators said.

At the time his live-in partner Manilyn Delfin was in the kitchen preparing dinner.

Delfin told the police she heard two gunshots coming from their living room.

She went to check the origin of the sound, only to find the bloodied body of her live-in partner, police said.

Cantos sustained a gunshot wound on the back.

Someone must have barged in their house to kill him, said the police.

Cantos was taken to the Bailan District Hospital but an attending physician pronounced him “dead on arrival.”

Investigators have yet to identify a suspect and determine the motive as of this writing./PN

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